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I've spent some time recently on setting up my environment to work more productively on writing puppet manifests. This blogpost highlights some of the findings to get me more productive on editing puppet files and modules. Some older information can be found at Editor Tips on the puppetlabs website.

Tip 1: Syntax highlighting,snippet completion

Puppet syntax is very specific, it's important to get clues about missing curly braces, semi-colums, etc .. as fast as possible. There is support for this in the most common editors: